The
management and students of the Federal Polytechnic, Offa in Kwara State are in
shock over the reported case of suicide by a student of the institution.
Punch
correspondent gathered that a National Diploma 1 student of the Civil
Engineering Department, Ridwan Ajiboye, reportedly drank some quantity of
insecticide and eventually died.
Ajiboye,
who was the son of a traditional title holder in Iragbiji in the Boripe Local
Government Area of Osun State, decided to end his life after he was allegedly
embarrassed by one of his lecturers, who gave him some handouts to sell to his
course mates.
The
Public Relations Officer, Students Union Government of the polytechnic, Olayinka
Owolabi, when contacted by Punch correspondent on the telephone on Saturday,
confirmed the incident but said nobody knew why the deceased killed himself.
He
said, “Some of his neighbours heard his cry and rushed to his room where they
met him gasping for air. He was taken to hospital but he eventually died.
“They
said he took poisonous substance but we do not know what he took and nobody can
say why he took the substance.”
He
said the remains of the student had since been buried at his hometown, stating
that his parents said they were not interested in investigating the
circumstances that surrounded his death.
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